What is oxytocin used for?

Oxytocin is FDA approved, as Pitocin, for inducing or strengthening labor during childbirth, a well established obstetric use. It is also studied for social behavior, bonding, and psychiatric conditions, but this site's review found that evidence to be mixed rather than settled, so those uses remain investigational rather than approved indications.

Educational use only. This database summarizes published research and is not medical advice. Where a dose appears it is a record of what a trial or clinic ran, or what people describe doing, with its source attached. Nothing here is a recommendation for personal use.

Part of sexual health and hormone peptides. PT-141, melanotan, oxytocin, gonadorelin, and kisspeptin-10.